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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsugabubus <zsugabubus@national.shitposting.agency>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Funky list-colors
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:06:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZrwCrhkVCvZUAEgomWT_+bydWHEHV_oaZTDc=rnadyTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191129122141.rekf7hcxtacjojo2@localhost>

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 4:22 AM zsugabubus <
zsugabubus@national.shitposting.agency> wrote:

> zstyle ':completion::complete:*' list-colors 'fi=mXXX \e['
>
> Zsh doesn't seem to correctly handle cases when “color” causes something
> to being printed on the screen
>

Color sequences are assumed to be zero-width.  They aren't supposed to
insert printable text, the shell has no way to know how much space that
will use.


I'm not completely sure if it's a bug or I am trying to do something
> illegal with `list-colors`/`LS_COLORS`.
>

The latter :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-29 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-29 12:21 zsugabubus
2019-11-29 16:06 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-11-29 17:23   ` zsugabubus
2019-11-29 19:22     ` Bart Schaefer
2019-11-29 20:37       ` zsugabubus
2019-12-04 23:27         ` Bart Schaefer
2019-12-05  7:44           ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-12-05 11:07           ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-12-05 11:19             ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-12-05 17:40             ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-12-07 20:58           ` zsugabubus
2019-12-07 21:42             ` Oliver Kiddle

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